Last week, “Admiral Sprott” was asked what the Precious Metal bull market was like in 2000-11. Today, not a thing has changed – except my Precious Metal portfolio, comprising roughly 90% of my liquid assets, is 100% physical metal, with my only “financial asset” being a 1% position in Bitcoin.
Silver ETF Returning 280% Says Party Not Over in Yield-Less EraRally in silver prices could be sustained, Fresnillo says. For investors who missed silver’s 46% rally this year, it’s not too late to jump in, according to the firm behind the world’s best-performing exchange-traded fund.
The main reason for investors piling back in to precious metals this year — low interest rates — isn’t going away anytime soon, said Andrew Chanin, chief executive officer of PureFunds, whose junior silver miner ETF has delivered holders a 280% return this year. Silver is rallying the most among major commodities this year as about $9 trillion of debt tracked by the Bloomberg Global Developed Sovereign Bond Index offer yields below zero, meaning those who buy the debt and hold to maturity stand to lose money.
Investors’ rabid appetite for gold is showing no signs of abating, as figures from the World Gold Council show record investment in the first half of 2016. The trend for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to pile in to the precious metal, a classic safe haven amid uncertainty in the global economy and the search for yield, sent the price of gold soaring by 25 percent in the first half of the year, the biggest price rise since 1980. Just in the last six months, as evidenced by the Global X Lithium ETF (NYSE: LIT), it’s up a bit more than 40%. Just better hope that nothing happens to you, even if you aren’t doing anything wrong… because authorities are now combing through travel data and flagging anyone who might be carrying cash.
They want the cash, and the DEA say they are targeting couriers for drug money, but in most cases simply seizing cash and release suspects without charge.
Two weeks ago, when looking at the recent surge in short-term funding rates in general, and Libor in particular, we said that this is the result of a scramble by various funds to change their asset ahead of an October 14 deadline for money market reform.

Air Force Seeks New Land-Based and Air-Launched Nukes … Advancing what could become a near-total rebuild of the U.S.
At the same time as the Pentagon’s ability to audit its spending, HERE, is still in shambles, the US military-industrial complex seeks a cool trillion dollars to modernize virtually America’s entire nuclear force.
This ABC article, above, calls the upgrade one that could cost “hundreds of billions.” But other estimates put the estimates far higher than that. Instead of singles, doubles, and triples, investors are knocking a different sector out of the park almost every single trading day.
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He replied that it was as painstaking as today, with the Cartel seemingly “winning” more days than it lost.
Thus, the stress I feel during today’s Cartel attacks – which per the “manipulation mantra” I coined circa 2005, “each day worse than the last,” has not let up one bit – is more muted.
For the first time ever, investment, rather than jewelry, was the largest component of gold demand for two consecutive quarters. For comparison, this was 16 percent higher than in the first half of 2009, when the financial crisis raged.

Recall that “On October 14, 2a-7 money fund reforms will require some prime money market mutual funds (those that invest in non-government issued assets) to float their net asset value (NAV) or, under certain circumstances, to impose redemption gates and liquidity fees on redemptions.
It’s probably under pressure from the larger military-industrial complex to get the funds moving. Having been fully invested in the sector since mid-2002, I concur 100% – as even during the “best of times,” it was sheer torture. But just a little, as after 14? years of watching the government – er, Cartel – attack my net worth, livelihood, and sanity, I’ve built up a lifetime’s worth of anger. Rather than face these regulatory constraints, many investors have started pulling assets from prime funds, and a number of prime funds have converted to government-only funds (which are exempt from these regulations). The two projects are part of a broader modernization of the nuclear arsenal expected to cost hundreds of billions of dollars over 30 years. Instead of every sector marching lockstep up and down in an endless chop, we’re seeing genuine breakouts pop up left and right. NO MATERIAL HERE CONSTITUTES "INVESTMENT ADVICE" NOR IS IT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO STOCKS, COMMODITIES, OPTIONS, BONDS, OR FUTURES.
I try to be diligent about the time I get up, get ready, get to work, and start writing, but… There are always bumps in the road… This morning though, our Little Christine, is bringing in breakfast sandwiches, so I’ve got that going for me today!
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